1887

1887

1887

Calendar year

1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1887th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 887th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1887, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Events

January–March

April–June

June 23: Banff National Park

July–September

July 26: Esperanto

October–December

Date unknown

Births

January–February

Miklós Kállay
Arthur Rubinstein
Edelmiro Julián Farrell
Joseph Bech
Chico Marx

March–April

Julian Huxley
Marc Chagall
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Erwin Schrödinger
Giovanni Gronchi

May–June

July–August

September–October

Avery Brundage
Le Corbusier
Chiang Kai-shek

November–December

Bernard Montgomery
Boris Karloff
Erich von Manstein

Deaths

January–June

July–December

Gustav Kirchhoff

Date unknown

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